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Direct linkAlain Fritsch; Virginie Voltzenlogel; Christine Cuervo-Lombard – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Little research has examined changes in personal identity over different periods of adult development. The aim of the present cross-sectional study was to target these changes through the characterization of the main dimensions in self-defining memories (SDMs; thematic content, specificity, integrative meaning, tension, contamination/redemption,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Young Adults, Older Adults
Greer, Tomika W. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2020
Differences between military culture and civilian culture can affect the postmilitary experience for transitioning veterans. Adult educators should acquire and maintain a high level of military cultural competence to effectively serve female veterans as they transition out of the military. For women, the military-to-veteran transition also…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Development, Females, Veterans
Tisdell, Elizabeth J.; Palmer, Charles – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2018
This chapter focuses on negotiating life transitions that facilitate positive adult development, and the importance of self-care for health professions educators.
Descriptors: Adult Development, Self Management, College Faculty, Allied Health Occupations Education
Mitchell, Lauren L.; Frazier, Patricia A.; Sayer, Nina A. – Developmental Psychology, 2020
Most research and theory on identity integration focuses on adolescents and young adults under age 30, and relatively little is known about how identity adjusts to major life events later in life. The purpose of the present study was to operationalize and investigate "identity disruption," or a loss of temporal identity integration…
Descriptors: Identification (Psychology), Mental Health, Veterans, Adjustment (to Environment)
Stern, Jessica A.; Fraley, R. Chris; Jones, Jason D.; Gross, Jacquelyn T.; Shaver, Phillip R.; Cassidy, Jude – Developmental Psychology, 2018
The first months after becoming a new parent are a unique and important period in human development. Despite substantial research on the many social and biological changes that occur during the first months of parenthood, little is known about changes in mothers' attachment. The present study examines developmental stability and change in…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Mothers, Adult Development, Economically Disadvantaged
Yorks, Lyle; Nicolaides, Aliki – Human Resource Development Review, 2012
This article addresses an important, yet often underattended to, aspect of the strategy development process: fostering the use of strategic learning practices in the simultaneous practice of developing strategy and cultivating strategic mindset awareness. The need for addressing this aspect of the strategy development process is increasingly…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Models, Strategic Planning, World Views
Striving to Breathe and Balance on the Brink: Spirituality in the Lives of New Faculty in Transition
Riley, Ann T. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to increase an understanding of spirituality's place in the holistic adult adjustment of new faculty members during their transitional years at a public research university. Many have been concerned about the sense of fragmentation experienced in the academy and have called for cultural reforms of the conditions that…
Descriptors: Spiritual Development, Religious Factors, Role, College Faculty
Karaevli, Ayse; Tim Hall, Douglas T. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2006
This paper presents a theoretical model showing how managerial adaptability develops from career variety over the span of the person's career. By building on the literature of career theory, adult learning and development, and career adjustment, we offer a new conceptualization of managerial adaptability by identifying its behavioral, cognitive,…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Career Development, Models, Administrators
Miller, Richard L., Ed.; Balcetis, Emily, Ed.; Burns, Susan R., Ed.; Daniel, David B., Ed.; Saville, Bryan K., Ed.; Woody, William Douglas, Ed. – Society for the Teaching of Psychology, 2011
The purpose of the book is to provide teachers of psychology access to teaching techniques that epitomize "happy tact and ingenuity." The principle influence that teachers have on student behavior occurs in the classroom since, as noted by Erickson and Strommer, (1991), today's students spend relatively little time studying outside of class. When…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Adult Development, Class Activities, Learning Activities
